Until recently in Ukraine cheese-making was considered by dairy processors as the most profitable dairy business. Just cheese-making absorbed the biggest share of the milk produced in the country. The biggest investments were also directed into cheese production. In the last two years the situation has changed dramatically. Huge currency depreciation, the unprecedented since 90s inflation, […]
The raw milk market, as well as Ukrainian economy in general, are in a serious crisis. The main reasons for the difficulties in dairy farming are low milk purchasing prices set by dairy processors and significant growth of production costs. The Russian ban on imports of Ukrainian dairy to Russia and the world market low […]
INFAGRO: The State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service has been authorised to provide the supervision of the relevant enterprises, in particular, dairy plants. The moratorium on the verifications has been lifted. How the verification and surveillance will be performed? Is there any schedule? What may cause the inspector’s visit to a dairy?
Tetra Pak has announced its intention to close its plant for packaging production in Kyiv with the expected date of cessation of production on December 31, 2016.
In June the Ukrainian dairy market situation can be defined as “steadily poor” – INFAGRO.
In my opinion, Ukrainian processors will not procure raw milk from Europe, at least in the coming years. One reason is that raw milk is a demanding product, it should be delivered to processing facilities in a very short time lapse.
Speaking on the cooperation in Ukraine we have to keep in mind that forms of cooperation can be different: cooperation of agricultural enterprises; cooperation of small farmers; cooperation of private households.
Moldova’s monthly imports of Ukrainian dairy is about 700 t of fresh milk products and about 70-80 t of cheese. Cheap cheese Moldovans can buy in the EU, but they do not have the affordable alternative to our fresh milk dairy. They simply do not have enough raw milk to produce dairy products themselves.
